Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed that the presidential elections in Syria announced the failure of the international war against it and that any political solution must be attained with President Bashar Assad.

Sayyed Nasrallah, who was speaking during the memorial service of the head of Islamic Association for Education and Teaching, Sheikh Mostafa Qassir, emphasized that the Syrian government withstood in face of the Western pressures and insisted on carrying out the presidential elections.

“The Syrians challenged the American and the Western pressures through their historical turnout,” Sayyed Nasrallah added, “Instead of exerting these pressures which aimed at confiscating the Syrians’ will, the US and the West must have allowed the Syrian expatriates to vote at the Syrian embassies in the their countries.”

“In some countries, takfiri fatwas were issued to prevent the Syrian from participating in the elections.”